The Tweet That Aged Like Milk

On November 28, 2025, Senator Chuck Schumer took to X to lecture the country about the dangers of “another costly foreign war,” warning that Donald Trump’s tough talk on Venezuela could drag America into yet another quagmire. He solemnly reminded everyone that only Congress can declare war and thumped his chest about putting “America First” by avoiding “endless foreign wars.” The statement reads like it was written by a dove who has spent two decades fighting militarism. The problem: the author is Chuck Schumer, one of the Senate’s most reliable war hawks when the cameras weren’t pointing at his own record.

The 2002 Iraq War Vote: Yes, He Really Did That

In October 2002, Chuck Schumer stood on the Senate floor and voted for the Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force, the very resolution that launched a war that cost over 4,400 American lives, wounded tens of thousands more, and burned through two trillion dollars. He didn’t just vote yes—he defended the vote for years, insisting Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction right up until the intelligence was proven fabricated. Only when the political winds shifted did he mumble that it was a “mistake.” A mistake he never truly apologized for until it became politically convenient.

Funding the Forever Wars, Year After Year

Every single year from 2003 to 2020, Schumer voted for massive defense appropriations and emergency supplemental bills that kept troops in Iraq and Afghanistan long past the point any sane person could call the missions a success. Hundreds of billions of dollars—trillions when you count interest on the debt—flowed into those conflicts with Schumer’s enthusiastic approval. He never once filibustered a war-funding bill. He never once voted “present.” He voted yes, again and again and again.

Yemen: Silence While Children Starved

When Saudi Arabia began bombing Yemen in 2015 with American weapons, intelligence, and mid-air refueling, Schumer’s response was to keep voting for the arms sales and the underlying defense authorizations. For years he refused to co-sponsor War Powers resolutions that would have ended U.S. complicity in what the United Nations called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Only in 2019, after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi made Saudi Arabia radioactive, did Schumer discover his anti-war conscience and start voting to block some arms sales.

The Sudden Conversion to “America First”

Now, in late 2025, the same Chuck Schumer who green-lit the Iraq invasion, funded twenty years of occupation, and looked the other way while Yemen burned wants you to believe he’s the guardian of congressional war powers and a born-again opponent of “endless foreign wars.” The man who spent two decades handing presidents blank checks for military adventurism is suddenly clutching pearls because Donald Trump used strong language about Venezuela.

He Doesn’t Get to Rewrite History

Chuck Schumer isn’t confused. He isn’t forgetful. He’s banking on the fact that most Americans won’t remember—or won’t bother to look up—how many times he voted to send other people’s kids into Middle Eastern meat grinders while he collected donations from defense contractors and climbed the leadership ladder. The senator who helped create the very “endless wars” he now decries has the audacity to lecture anyone else about reckless foreign policy. He doesn’t get to do that. Not without being called exactly what he is: a hypocrite who can’t be allowed to get away with this any longer.